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  1. Lennie
    Beautiful tank!! 🙂
  2. Lennie
    I better get only one as well then. How was the algae eating situation for your experience. Good enough?
  3. Lennie
    Do they fight with each other? I remember reading they can be territorial especially in number 2, so either single or at least 3 is better. What's your experience?
  4. Lennie
    I had a white guinea pig called Gandalf. It was so hard to see him pass away. Now seeing your beautiful fish called Gandalf, It made me remember of my lil one. It is always hard to say a goodbye to our friends. Hope people here may help you to make the best decision. @Odd Duck, would you like to share your opinion?
  5. Lennie
    I have borneo sucker. More or less the same I assume so I can share my own experience. Really hardy. Can tolerate really high temps, my tanks reach up to 32Cs during summer, no issues. I try to oxygenate water more in general for them. Needs to be added to an established tank as they enjoy eating biofilm a lot. I added mine I guess 2 months after I set my tank. They do eat algae but in my experience, barely noticable. I personally don't think they are good algae eaters by any means. It was shy for the first weeks but now, it attacks the food first. It enjoys eating everything from my experience. Anything I feed my cories and pleco, and food that falls down to the floor. I have not observed them showing interest to snello, veggies or nori sheet I offer to my snails. But love frozen food and fish food otherwise. It has it's fav place in the tank and goes there whenever It wants to chill, but otherwise, not shy at all. Active during the day as well, spending most of its time on glass and rocks. I don't see mine on big leaf plants and driftwood much really. They can be a lil territorial to their own kind. I only have one myself, but in my lfs, I see especially males chasing each other from time to time. Not agressively tho. Just make them leave their space. I had that tank with clear on all sides, now it has a black background. No behavior difference really. So I personaly don't think you need to cover a side as a must. It is up to you. Oh and they change color a lot based on the floor/rock they are on. You can see better colors on darker substrates/rocks, or else, they make themselves much brighter.
  6. Lennie
    Thanks for your detailed response! I personally don’t think my pleco would go agressive too really but you never know. As you mentioned it is pretty docile. It was tagged as a L199 but I am not even sure if it is. I will share a pic so maybe you can tell: juvenile: it was with me since it was a juvenile. It indeed likes carnivore pellets and frozen food more, compared to veggie content/spirulina/algae wafers. I'm really leaning towards leopard frogs but idk. my worry is plecos always hiding. At best it all being dependent on their character. If I had a chance I would love to have bigger whiptails this time, but they are hard to come by here :,) whiptails are always out!
  7. Lennie
    Thank you. I don't live in USA. But Sae is back to the potential list then, when my LFS get them again 🙂
  8. Lennie
    Yea, I've never kept this one with another pleco before so I really don't know how the reaction would be like versus something similar to itself. Normally it is very peaceful, only hardly pushes corys away sometimes from its food.
  9. Lennie
    Thanks a lot! I'm very excited as well. I wanna see how they enjoy this update already 🙂 Would a BN go well with a L199 in the same tank? I guess L199 can be a little territorial. I'm planning to make something like an triangular island shape, so it may kick it out of potential hiding places, I thought, as some part of the tank will be pure sand.
  10. Lennie
    That's also what I understand from the video. But I just wanted to share to give you an idea about the recommendations I've seen a couple days ago. You should enjoy scaping your tank in the way you want for sure. You are the one looking at it everyday. Design it in the way you like it the most!
  11. Lennie
    Update: The custom made tank is here. I also got a new 100w heater, AC70 (found it locally, so didn't have to order from Amazon Germany and pay a lot more!), 90cm plant light and 2x 8Liters of Neo Aquasoil. The straphor under didn't make me feel comfy enough. We talked with @nabokovfan87 some, and I'm planning to get an aquarium mat instead. Sera (Sera Thermosafe mat) has one that perfectly fits 100x40cm, which is exactly my tank size. And Creaqua, which is a well known local aquarium brand here, has one that looks like rubber, 150x50cm. Planning to get the bigger one and cut it I guess. https://www.sera.de/us/product/terrarium/sera-thermo-safe/ https://www.creaqua.com.tr/tr/akvaryumlar-ve-ekipmanlar/9-creaqua-aquamat.html Any ideas? Also I am looking for some algae eaters that would handle the 27C-28C (80-82F) that rams enjoy. I currently have rams, honey gourami, sterbai cories, rabbit snails, L199 and rummy nose tetras that will move to this tank from their 29g. I've been considering SAE and panda garras. But seems like they like it a bit lower temps. Any suggestions are welcomed as tank mates, especially algae eaters. @DiscusLover @Fish Folk Any ideas guys?
  12. Lennie
    Snoopy next time blink twice if you are in need of help with these zucchini monsters
  13. Lennie
    Mil is such a cute name. Does it have a meaning?
  14. Lennie
    @Alex j When I was watching Green Aqua's general scape video, it was adviced to place dragonstones in a way that the holes of them generally looking at the same direction. I just wanted to share. I'm tagging the related part of the video for you down below. It is your tank and your liking ofc. Just wanted to share what I've learnt 2 days ago!
  15. Lennie
    yw! hope the video helps to understand the relation between filters/airstone/surface agitation and oxygen levels in the tank. Wishing the best to your pets. hope they get better asap
  16. Lennie
    If you don't aerate the new water you are adding in, it will not be oxygen rich as far I know. Plants and bacteria also keep using oxygen during night time as well as your fish and inverts. As you mentioned, it is generally adviced to increase the potential oxygen providers/surface agitation during medicine use. Surface agitation plays a big role in the oxygen levels rather than the bubbles you see from the sponge filter. Make sure you have a good amount of surface agitation and it is not being blocked by lots of floating plants or so. If you have a chance, try to aerate the new water before water change maybe. I believe an extra airstone in the tank should also help. You can see its effect on oxygen levels in this video:
  17. Lennie
    Are they peaceful?
  18. Lennie
    "Do what I say, Don't do what I do" 😄 Yea pouring boiling water worked for me too so far. Team survivors 😎🍻
  19. Lennie
    How adorable! I've never seen them before. I bet we don't have them here. cuties
  20. Lennie
    Be careful with that! I didn't know they can literally explode and cause injuries, beyond normal potential cracks. I haven't had issues before boiling but I didn't know. Never again
  21. Lennie
    Just by running it for a couple of weeks in the same tank together with the established filter really. Some say 2 weeks is enough but I wouldn't do less than a month myself. But even then, I would stockthe new tank really slow as always. How stocked is your established tank?
  22. Lennie
    Second one looks like emersed version of Cardamine lyrata Vietnam to me. When I got mine emersed it looked like this, then the new submersed growth changed later on and became like this: But I'm not sure
  23. Lennie
    They love floating plants, and even though mine is not, It is commonly said that honeys can be shy. They are def shy eaters in general. Maybe he feels more confident around the hornwort in general? You seem to have platies so that is probably a yes but, does it have enough veggy content in its food? In my experience, they love bbs. Maybe give it a go and see how it reacts to food! Maybe it is picky about the food you feed. If it poops brown and healthily, it is eating. But fish can poop without eating too as far as I know, it just looks empty poop that way
  24. Lennie
    Hey there @Saly, As you may know, aquasoils leech a lot of nutritions in the first couple weeks and require lots of big water changes during these times. These excess nutritions may trigger algae bloom as well. I personally don't add any fertilizers to the water column for the first weeks if I use aquasoil as there seems to be many leeching already, and plants go through an adapting phase where they melt, try to get used to their new environment, and don't really perform any growth to potentially use the nutritients. So anything excess that plants can't use favors potential algae. Big water changes during these early weeks help to get rid of excess nutritions and potential algae spores as far as I know. What has been your water changing schedule since it is set up? I'm leaning on the side of early stage of bba. @nabokovfan87 what do you think? Have you tried scrubbing the leaves? Does it come out easily like a diatom? Or Does it look similar to this video?
  25. Lennie
    It is also mentioned to add tank water in there too. Everyone may prefer something anyway, but I always drip acclimate my all snails.
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